the city of bridgeport, conn., which is one of the poorest cities in the country in pretty much everyone in between. my district also sets -- sits for miles south of the town called new town which unfortunately became a big part of the public imagination several weeks ago when the tragedy occurred there. one of the many things that happened to all of us, not just those of us who live close, but all of us in this country was in the face of unspeakable tragedy we felt, maybe for the first time in a long time the fact that we have a lot more in common than we have things separating yes. all the trivialities to all of the conceits kamal the day-to-day concerns that we have fallaway. we don't want that sort of thing to have to remind us of that bottom line fact. the truth is that all the issues we struggle with, whether medicare or social security, welfare of grandparents, whether it is how much we tax, invest, how good our system of education is to all of those things at their core is the notion that we want the same for the kids of bridgeport as the kids in greenwich. there's an awful lot m